LGBTQ activists from Jamaica have launched a petition calling on the Jamaican government to ban Anderson from the island nation. The petition has attracted about 8,000 signatures in just a week.

“Steven Anderson is endangering LGBTQ people around the world with his reckless words and dangerous messages,” said HRC Global Director Ty Cobb. “We stand in solidarity with Jamaican advocates as they tirelessly organize to counter the hateful bigotry he is peddling.”

"We still live in a country where many persons suffer from abuse and bullying with the use of Jamaican pejoratives for LGBTQ persons, in the workplace, on the playing field, in school and even in the home," he said. "This man's history of promoting homophobia is an insult to human dignity and Jamaica can ill afford importing another bigot to add to our own home-grown practitioners."